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A lost album by legendary American Jazz musician John Coltrane, dating from recording sessions in 1963, has been rediscovered.
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The album, which will be released in full on June 29 entitled 'Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album,' was recorded on March 6, 1963, at Van Gelder studios in New Jersey, with the legendary quartet that produced the masterpiece 'A Love Supreme': Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
One track, entitled 'Untitled Original 11383,' has already been pre-released online.
The session's mastertape was lost, but a reference tape was given to Coltrane's then-wife Naima. That was then lost among her family's possessions, but the family recently found the tapes and brought them to the record label.
The sessions depict Coltrane at a transitional moment in his development as an artist, shifting toward a more "free" playing style in which he deviated from the norms and constraints of bebop to the mantra-like, meditative tones of 'A Love Supreme' and other later works.
The 1963 Coltrane of 'Both Directions at Once' retains the melodic sensibilities of his earlier work, while showing signs of the spiritual, free jazz of his final years.
By the time Coltrane passed away in 1967 at the young age of 40, he had established himself as one of the most influential, groundbreaking musicians in the history of jazz, and American music as a whole.
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